Hey, I'm basically a bedroom producer who wants to up his mixing/mastering game, and I realize the most important part is properly hearing what you're doing.
I was following tutorials, and they were doing mini compression / EQ dips, and I literally could not follow along cause I couldn't hear what the changes were doing lol
I have an Audient EVO4 (99$ USB interface) and AKG K240 headphones. I want to upgrade my interface, my headphones, and get a headphone amp.
I actually bought a Burson Conductor V2+ the other day, it was such a great deal I snatched it up (like 1/8th of retail price) hopefully it works lol. It's a HQ Dac/Amp/Preamp. Excited to get it but not sure what I'm doing really. No idea how to use it, like do I connect it to my interface or what?
Anyway, I'm thinking of upgrading my setup like I said. I basically narrowed it down to these:
Headphones: AKG K712, Slate VSX
Interface: Babyface PRO FS, Audient ID22
Headphone amp: Grace M902, Burson Conductor V2+ (soon to have)
I heard Grace HP amps are neutral and clean, not sure about the burson I'm getting, if it colors the sound I'll sell it and buy a neutral amp.
Basically I want to use headphones mainly for mixing, and I heard everyone say amazing things about Slate VSX, except they're not very detailed, but they're flat, and imitate speakers/rooms excellently, people said they've got professional mixes out of them, so I'm basically planning on buying those.
So since the slate VSX doesn't show all the details (AKA the recording mistakes, the little sharp pitches that happen) I was thinking of getting the K712 which I heard is very analytical and precisely shows you the details of the sound, unless I'm mistaken here. And using it with a good HP Amp and Interface to drive it best.
For the interface, I need good preamps for running analogue outs of my synths and effect boxes and fattening the sound, and DI input for guitar (Audient has JFET DI, and great preamps)
I also need great drivers for heavy VST projects, and to figure out a way to bypass the interfaces headphone preamp (not sure how to do this yet) I heard RME has the most neutral DAC/great drivers. but their preamps and DI input are just okay.
So I don't know whether to go for RME, or a bigger Audient device (for more I/O), ppl say amazing things about RME, but its expensive and I lose good preamps/DI input
any suggestions or advise?
I was following tutorials, and they were doing mini compression / EQ dips, and I literally could not follow along cause I couldn't hear what the changes were doing lol
I have an Audient EVO4 (99$ USB interface) and AKG K240 headphones. I want to upgrade my interface, my headphones, and get a headphone amp.
I actually bought a Burson Conductor V2+ the other day, it was such a great deal I snatched it up (like 1/8th of retail price) hopefully it works lol. It's a HQ Dac/Amp/Preamp. Excited to get it but not sure what I'm doing really. No idea how to use it, like do I connect it to my interface or what?
Anyway, I'm thinking of upgrading my setup like I said. I basically narrowed it down to these:
Headphones: AKG K712, Slate VSX
Interface: Babyface PRO FS, Audient ID22
Headphone amp: Grace M902, Burson Conductor V2+ (soon to have)
I heard Grace HP amps are neutral and clean, not sure about the burson I'm getting, if it colors the sound I'll sell it and buy a neutral amp.
Basically I want to use headphones mainly for mixing, and I heard everyone say amazing things about Slate VSX, except they're not very detailed, but they're flat, and imitate speakers/rooms excellently, people said they've got professional mixes out of them, so I'm basically planning on buying those.
So since the slate VSX doesn't show all the details (AKA the recording mistakes, the little sharp pitches that happen) I was thinking of getting the K712 which I heard is very analytical and precisely shows you the details of the sound, unless I'm mistaken here. And using it with a good HP Amp and Interface to drive it best.
For the interface, I need good preamps for running analogue outs of my synths and effect boxes and fattening the sound, and DI input for guitar (Audient has JFET DI, and great preamps)
I also need great drivers for heavy VST projects, and to figure out a way to bypass the interfaces headphone preamp (not sure how to do this yet) I heard RME has the most neutral DAC/great drivers. but their preamps and DI input are just okay.
So I don't know whether to go for RME, or a bigger Audient device (for more I/O), ppl say amazing things about RME, but its expensive and I lose good preamps/DI input
any suggestions or advise?